List of ship launches in 2012
The list of ship launches in 2012 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 2012.
| Date | Ship | Class / type | Builder | Location | Country | Notes |
| 7 January | MSC Deila | MSC Danit-type container ship | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | Geoje | ||
| 8 January | Cruise ship | Meyer Werft | Papenburg | For Disney Cruise Line | ||
| 12 January | Ro-ro ferry | Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft | Flensburg | For Seatruck Ferries | ||
| 13 January | Sentinel-class cutter | Bollinger Shipyards | Lockport, Louisiana | For | ||
| 14 January | Austal USA | Mobile, Alabama | For | |||
| 27 January | Ro-ro ferry | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Nagasaki | For Shin Nihonkai | ||
| 27 January | Ro-ro ferry | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Nagasaki | For Shin Nihonkai | ||
| 4 February | Santa Barbarra | Santa-class container ship | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | Okpo | For Hamburg Süd | |
| 7 February | Replica caravel | Graeme Wylie | Bushfield | |||
| 15 February | Valemax | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | Geoje-Okpo | For Vale Shipping | ||
| 1 March | Cargo ship | STX Finland | Turku | For Gaiamare | ||
| 2 March | Sentinel-class cutter | Bollinger Shipyards | Lockport, Louisiana | For | ||
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